Sociology and Anthropology

Tawnya J. Adkins Covert, Department Chair and Professor of Sociology

Tawnya Adkins Covert

Ph.D., Purdue University, 2001

Dr. Adkins Covert joined the Department in 2000.

Contact Info

Office: Morgan Hall 404
Phone: (309) 298-1056
Email: TJ-AdkinsCovert@wiu.edu

Courses

  • Soc 323 Research Methods I
  • Soc 324 Research Methods II
  • Soc 360 Gender and Society
  • Soc 370 The American Family
  • Soc 415 Social Stratification
  • Soc 462G Political Sociology
  • Soc 470 Sociology of Popular Culture
  • Soc 535 Qualitative Research Methods
  • Soc 599 Seminars in Consumer Culture and Media Sociology

Areas of Specialization

Political Sociology, Media Sociology, Consumer Culture, Stratification, Methods

Selected Publications

  • Adkins Covert, Tawnya. 2023. “Political Socialization” in Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology , edited by Maria Grasso and Marco Giugni. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

  • Wasburn, Philo C. and Tawnya Adkins Covert. 2017. Making Citizens: Political Socialization Research and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Adkins Covert, Tawnya. 2011. Manipulating Images: World War II Mobilization of Women through Magazine Advertising. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

  • Adkins Covert, Tawnya and Philo C. Wasburn. 2009. Media Bias? A Comparative Study of Time, Newsweek, National Review, and Progressive Coverage of Domestic Social Issues, 1975-2000. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Adkins Covert, Tawnya and Philo C. Wasburn. 2007. "Measuring Media Bias: A Content Analysis of Time and Newsweek Coverage of Domestic Social Issues, 1975-2000." Social Science Quarterly. 88(3): 690-706.
  • Adkins Covert, Tawnya and Philo C. Wasburn. 2007. "Information Sources and the Coverage of Social Issues in Partisan Publications: A Content Analysis of 25 years of the Progressive and the National Review."”Mass Communication and Society. 10(1):67-94.
  • Adkins Covert, Tawnya. 2003. "Consumption and Citizenship during World War II: Product Advertisements in Women's Magazines." Journal of Consumer Culture. 3(3): 315-342.
  • Adkins Covert, Tawnya, Denise Ferguson, Selene Phillips and Philo Wasburn. 2000. "News In My Backyard: Media and Democracy in an 'All American' City." The Sociological Quarterly 41(2).
  • Grauerholz, Elizabeth and Tawnya Adkins Covert. 1997. "Twenty-Five Exceptional Educational Videos for Sociology of Marriage and Family Courses." Teaching Sociology. 25:338-352.

Organizational Memberships/Affiliations

American Sociological Association, Midwest Sociological Association